Re: Numbers

From: <peterdjones.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 08:41:34 -0800

Brent Meeker wrote:
> peterdjones.domain.name.hidden wrote:
> >
> > Georges Quénot wrote:
> >
> >>peterdjones.domain.name.hidden wrote:
> >>
> >>>Quentin Anciaux wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>What properties of the multiverse would render only one mathematical object
> >>>>real and others abstract...
> >>>
> >>>A non-mathematical property. Hence mathematics alone is not sufficient
> >>>to explain the world. QED.
> >
> >
> > This has to be a non-mathematical property because it is contingent,
> > and all mathematical
> > truth is necessary.
>
> It is necessairly true *given the axioms*. Suppose there is an axiom that picks
> out some worlds as real.
>

An axiom that follows necessarily from other axioms, or a contingent,
optional
axiom ?

Picks out some worlds as real ..from what ?


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